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HILLSBORO PTA OFFICERS—8hown following, their installation Tuesday night are President
lidgette, receiving the gavel from Mrs. C. D. Jones, retiring president; and left to right, Mrs.
. Dickson, vice president, Mrs. Glenn Auman, finance chaiman, Mrs. Fred Blake, secretary, and
Elrod, treasurer. ’' ' _
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Work
“North
en
than any other State in the
except Texas and North
a has more veterans en
in the Veteran Farm Train
gram than any other state.”
Kirkland pointed out that
ro. high school has one of
departments in the state
ain N. C. State seniors. He
the various phases of
of the teacher of agriculture,
cularly stressed work
adult farmers. '
C. D. Jones presented the
of the “History
P.TA." to Miss Rebec*
compiled It. Copies
given to all past presidents;
ocoming president, G. A.
G. T. Profitt. and C. D.
chairman of the, local school
officers were installed.
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»• J. E. Adams
New Leader
'A Council
— Mrs, tf. E. Adams of
el Hill was named president
e Orange County Council of
PT>A. at a meeting of the
ty-wide group held here. She
serve lor a trwo year term,
er new officers elected, fol
i their nomination by a
^ittee headed by Mrs. J. M.
were Mrs. C. D. Jones,
oro> vice president, and Mrs.
Efland, Jr., Efland, secre
[■trea surer.
ner Dowdy, Hillsboro voca
1. tea°her, addressed ,t h e
5 ‘ on*ihe vocational agricul
escribed projects being car
on while Miss Lewis* home
:rru°s teaether at Chapel Hill,
^ed, the work of her de
nent___
-nbers from other sections
te country were welcomed to
fneeting by Joe Howard, presi
1 °‘ the Efland organization.
dfrey Elected
twian President
® Hdl—©r. James l#, God
r; the University History De
^nt was elected president of
7 apel Hill Rotary Club at its
ln® iast week. He succeeds
‘ W. Whatley Pierson, —r1
, ^ Varley was named viee
John Clark, secretary,
tetoie, treasurer, and' Her
wentworth, sergeant-at-arms,
directors were Col
Qzf>> Danziger, James
^ Edwin Lanier and Don
In School Controversy
Charge Leaders
Clouding Issue
Cedar Grove—The Aycock com
mittee named to meet with simi
lar groups from other schools in
the Hillsboro area to effect a set
tlement of the attendance area
controversy charged this week
that leaders in Hillsboro seem to
be doing everything t#isy can to
cloud the issue and confuse the
people.
This charge was .made in a
lengthy mimeographed paper re
leased for publication which held
that the high school attendance
areas as proposed by the County
Board of Educa tion is the only so
lution to Aycock’s critical enroll
ment problem. The excessive
length of the article made its com
plete publication in this news
paper an impossibility. Previous
reports in news columns here have
attempted to present the events
occur irag in an impartial manner.
— The meeting of the committees
from Aycock, Efland, Hillsboro,
West Hillsboro, Caldwell -and
Murphy with the Hoard of Edu
cation is scheduled for Monday
night at 7:30 o’clock at the court
house.
The Aycock paper, signed by
members of the committee, Mar
garet Warren Walker, Mrs. F. P.
McDade and Henry B. Lewis,
brought the school bond election
into the picture, charging that
in the minds pf a great many
people the leaders from Hillsboro
on the bond steering committee
were in effect breaking faith by
doing what they had said prior to
the election they would not do,
namely, “no| to do a single thing
that would hurt the Aycock High
School.” The statement issued by
the Hillsboro committee follow
ing the Board’s proposal several
weeks ago was termed as rather
childidh.”
The statement contained most
of the facts brought out in the
hearing held at the High School
here several weeks ago. It min
imized the losses that would be
and said the' prof)d§W~changes
would help both schools,’ allowing
Aycock additional pupils and
teachers and alleviating to soQie
extent the overcrowded condition
of the Hillsboro school. The paper
held that the changes would help
the county economically by pre
venting the necessity., for con
structing another large high school
building in five* to ten years.
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LAYMAN’S DAY SPEAKER
Efland—E. W. Avent of Raleigh,
widely known layman of the
Edenton Street Methodist Church
of that city, will be the principal
speaker next Sunday at a charge
wide Layman’s Day Service to
be held_al the Efland Methodist,
Church at 11 o’clock.
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MEW CARRBORO POLICEMAN |
Carrboro—J- X Williams of
Durham has been added to the
Police Force in Carrboro and as
sumed his new duties here several
jays ago in that capacity
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EARLY VISIT DOWNTOWN
Hillsboro — A squawllng In
fant saw the light of day front.
• vantage point inside an auto
mobile on a main thoroughfare
here last Week.
__ -The mother was enroute to
Duke Hospital when the birth
took plate. The terrified hus
band accompanying her sought
aid at a local drug store and
was directed to Forrest Clinic,
whereahe was admitted after the
baby wae born. From all re
ports, both mother and child~‘
are doing fine. •
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Former Kiwanian
Head Honored
Chapel Hill—Charles Milner,
last year’s president of the Ki
wanis Club, was honored at last
week’s meeting of the club • in
ceremonies which included the
presentation to him of a gold seal
certificate of commendation from
Kiwanis International for the fine
service he rendered during his
tenure of office.
Doc Crowder of Henderson,
lieutenant-governor of the Fifth
Kiwanis Division, addressed Uje
club on the importance of the
proper guidance of a community’s
young people. It was his first visit
to the Chapel Hill club.
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Bobby Parlier Elected
MYF District President
Bctotoy Parlier of Hillsboro was •
elected president of the Durham
District of the Methodist Youth
Fellowship at a meeting at St.
Paul’s Methodist Church in Dur
ham Tuesday night. %
The Rev. William Howard of
the Chapel Hill Methodist Church
was guest speaker.
Wreck Victim Brings Easter Toll
Of Violent Deaths to 3 in Orange
Suicide-Murder
By Mental Patfeat
Shocks Village
Chapel Hill — “Just the type
of person children would love.”
Thus, some Chapel Hiliians and
acquaintances described .the man
who on Good Friday shocked this
community beyond anything it
has experienced in recent mem
ory.
That was the reaction, follow
ing high excitement, which evolv
ed after Len Broughton Sami they,
a sober, retiring former graduate
student shot and killed, apparent
ly in cold blood, his friend, George
Bennett, in the basement of the
V. A. Hill home at 210 Henderson
Street. __
After a manhunt which reached
state-wide proportions and na
tional publicity, tiie former mental
patient’s body was found slump
ed at the base-of a tree in Battle
Park where a 38-caliber bullet
from the same gun that killed
Bennett had ended his own life.
Coroner H. J. Walker off Hills
boro ruled the two deaths as
murder-suicide and held an in
quest unnecessary. Thus, the Uni
versity community was spared the
continued publicity which attend
ed the Hair-Coble tragedy on the
Wake Forest campus. - \
Smithey and Bennett had got
ten along well together prior to
the shooting, aoquaintenances said,
but Smithey was known general
ly as a quiet reticent type. He
had been a .patient at a Veteran's
Hospital where he was diagnosed
as a paranoic schizophrenic and
released over doctors’ protests.
Apparently his persecution com
plex was well fouftded_i»ccgrdlng
to beat reports. 1 wfisjSSF'
His closest friends declared that
Smith ey's life was one of con
tinued struggle for an education.
When his parents moved out of
Chapel Hill, he chose to remain
here and finish hjsrjSucation. He
was in his third year off high school
then.
During his last years off high
school, he lived in basements, fir
ing furnaces and accepting odd
jobs in order to finance his way.
Just before he joined the. Army
in 1940, Smithey came to live at
the home off Mr. and Mrs. J. 1&
Pullen of "Ransom Street; where
he was considered “one of the
family” Mrs. Pullen said, He felt
so close to the Pullens that he
named Mr. Pullen as his next of
kin whe* he enlisted in the Army.
“He helped out scrubbing floors
and called this his home,” Mrs.
Pullen said. “I don’t see how he
could do the thing he did.”
During the War Smithey: was
assigned to the South Pacific
theater. Among the action he saw
there was the battle for Guadal
canal. Wlhen he returned, Mrs.
Pullen said, he was a changed
man. -- ’ ' .
Before the War, Smithey had
been known as quiet, unassuming,
an intensive student. On his re
turn, Mrs. Pullen, said, he had
changed to an irritable, moody,
“nervous wreck.”
“Two years ago, he turned
against us. He thought we were
working against him, while all
the time we were trying to help
him,” Mrs. Pullen related.
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Puppy on the Block
WILLIAM MEAOE PRINCE AND “CANCER COCKER”—“Bonny^"
the five-month-old cocke spaniel puppy shown hero with William
Meade Prince, Chapel HIM Instructor ,and author, la a dog jof 'destiny.
His master, Carl Boettcher, well-known German ;wood-carver, died
of cancer in Chapel Hill recently (and “Bonny" is being offered (at
auction 'as |a .memorial gift in thd name of Mr. Boettcher and Os a
contribution to the Orange ^County Unit of the t American Cancer
Society. Bids of not less than $00, together with quallftealone to be
come the owner of “The Cancer Cocker” are being accepted by /Mrs.
Donald E. Kent, Box 1147, Chapel HIIL*
By william Meade Prince
Ohapel Hill—A touching and
tender story about a dog and a
man is in the making, ft is one
which tugs at thd heartstrings, tor
most <4 us'.lch^w the man, who
died just a rSfr wgeks ago—and
if we did not know the man, we
knew his works. But the story
will have a happy ending. You,
the reader, will supply the last
chapter...- -7—-- —
"Sonny” is a pure bred cocker
spaniel puppy, five months old,
anc| red as his own tongue. His
brown eyes are mournful or mis
chievious as he chooses, for cock
ers may sorrow one minute and
turn complete clowns the next.
Sonny's blood is blue, and his
lineage something to make a Cin
cinnati member of a D.AjR. turn
green with envy. Champions hang
from every lim of Sonny’s family
tree, and he is fully eligible for
registration in the American Ken
nel Club, that Who’s Who of dog
dom. And Sonny is a dog of dest
iny, for his fate is to be one which
would make the heart of the dead
man proud and happy.
The man (who owned Sonny’s
dam, Princess Kate, and subse
quently her puppies) was Carl
Boettcher, the artist who brought
his skill from his native Germany
to Chapel ‘ Hill, and added so
much beauty to a spot already
beautiful. His amazing wood-carv
ings, beginning with the majestic
American eagle on the pediment
of the Navy ROTPC Building, to
; the gay and riotous Circus mural
in the Monogram Club, have de
lighted thousands.
Carl Boettcher loved animals,
as his work denotes. One of his
last outings before he succumbed
to that ‘grim enemy, Cancer, was
a ,trip ta the farm of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald E. Kent, to see “Princess
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SMITH H
SENATOR GRAHAM IS ALREADY TJiERE—This interesting arrangement of senatorial campaign
banners intrigued Young Democrats at their recent regional rally in Asheville. First, Supporters of :
Willis Smith put UP their sign, Soon, adherents of Bob Reynolds spread their banner above Smith's j
sign. A little later, Senator Frsnk Graham's supporters topped them all with their fctogan: fFrank ,
Graham is Already There.’’. Smith is the only <one of the three who is not a jnatiye ofNorthCaroIlna. i
Smith was born In Norfolk, Wi'ginia. (Photo courtesy of the Asheville Citizen-Times).' ~ !
Pictured above are leaders in a
two-week revival which starts
Sunday, April 16, at the West
Hillrfboro Pentecostal Holiness
Church,
Rev. Roy Frazier, top, of Con
cord, N. C., and Rev. Philip Ge
netti, bottom photo, of Danville,
Va„ will assist, Rev. Robert, C
Frazer in the "meeting which is to
be "held every eyening at 7:30 un
Jcycees’ Elect" Officers e'jj
Charles Phi 11 ids1" was ctecteet
president of the Chapel Hill Junior
Chamber of Commerce at its regu
lar meeting last week. Herbert
Wentworth is the outgoing presi
dent.
Other officers include Bud Cox,
first vice president: Vance Hogan,
second Vice president; Harry Perr
dergraft, Secretary: and Richmond.
Sl'oanv treasurer. ,
A new board of directors was
also elected at the meeting. Those
~-ffirer-s— irerhide-not h Whitman.
Mike Cook, Buster Ogburn, Bill
Grice, and Herman Ward.
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ATTENDS CONVENTION
Chapel Hill — Paul H Robert
son, local representative for the
rarm Bureau insurance compani
es has just returned from Cohunb
is, Ohio, where Re attended
irim: 24th annual convention!
School Teacher
Dies fai Crash
Oh Highway 86
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HillSboro — Orange County’s
violent death toll tor the Crater
weekend moved to three Monday
altemoon on Highway 88, four
miles north df here, when Miss
Mary Ha inner, 28, Pulaski, Va.
school teadher, met death follow
ing a collision with another auto
mobile racing at an estimated 85
miles per hour. '
— Eugene Boss, 25-year-old Negro
tobacco worker of Durham, was
the driver of the other vehicle
which hit the Hamner car, a late
model Pontiac, on the left side
of the road after he had lost con
trol. ' *
Other of the car Ross was driv
ing^wafr George Long, Jr., 22.
Negro, who said that Ross had
been racing with Jasper Torian
traveling on Highway 88 Just be
fore the accident occurred. Both
cars were almost demolished.
Miss Hamner died enroute to
the hospital. Her father, Frank ~
Hamner, 86, the only other oc
cupant of her car, was only slight
ly injured, suffering a shoulder
injury and cuts and bruises about
the face.
®o£h Long and Ross ran af
ter the accident and were the ob
jects of a widespread police search
until Tuesday morning. Roes is
being held on i leu gws at man
slaughter, driving, drunk and hit
and run and Long is charged with
permitting Roes to drive while
drunk and aiding and abetting in
manslaughter. Torian "will face a
charge of speeding in excess of 75
miles per hour and reckless driv
ing. Torian is under bond of $800
ami the other if * are being held
fm< a prelimh«4 hAuin* ModG*
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Coy Long Eaters
Race For Seat
On County Board
Hillsboro — Wife the deadline
for filing only two days away and
registration books scheduled to
open for the May 27 primary on
Saturday of this week, political
activity picked up this week with
the filing of incumbent officers
for reelection, and the entry of
two new candidates for county
positions. *
A race for the county commis
sion was assured with the filing
yesterday of Coy Long of Cedar
Grove as a candidate for that
board. Up until that time the in
cumbent board consisting of Col
lier Cobb, Jr., Ben Wilson and
H. G. Laws was unopposed.
A. H. Walker filed for the po
sition of coroner, replacing his
father, H. J. Walker, local funeral
director, who has decided not to
seek the post again.
Others paying their filing fees
to the County Board of Elections
and announcing their desire for
reelection were Edwin M. Lynch,
clerk of court, J. Ed Laws, regist
er of deeds, S. T. Latta, sheriff,
and Zeto Burton, member. Board
of Education. There were no other
candidates for these positions late
yesterday. 1
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Caster Show
At Planetarium
If 1 lapel -Hill—Contrary to a pre
vious announcement, the Easter
program of the Morehead Plane- .
tarium in^ Chapel Hill will con
tinue through an additional week,
through 'Monday, April 17.
"The increasing attendance and
the'demand for the Easter show
ing have made us realize that
manj people who wish to see it
have not been able so* tar to get
to Chapel Hill,” Dr. Rov Marshall,
director of the Planetarium, ex
plains.
A new record for one day's at
tendance was set Sunday, .April
2. when 2700 visitors saw seven
performances from 2 p. m. to
9 p. m. Those Who wish to be
sure af seeing a performance at
a time of their own choosing
should try to come on a week-day
mght, according to Dr. Marshall.
Even then, however, visitors
should- try to arrive as early as
7:30 p. m. - V f